Syria’s first couple, Asma and Bashar al-Assad, at their private office overlooking Damascus.

I can’t see the ‘international community’ getting involved in Syria the way it has in Libya. First, they can’t get involved with every country in the Arab world. And second, Assad is considered more ‘one of the club’ than Gadhafi (who is widely regarded as a lunatic) and even Ahmadinejad.